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ddavison
ddavison

Reputation: 29032

Ansible playbook with vault file

I'm attempting to run a playbook using a vault file, according to the docs by using the --vault-password-file option.

Here is my command:

sudo -u ubuntu -H sh -c "cd ~/overseer; ansible-playbook generate_keys.yml -l mgmt --vault-password-file ~/.vaultpw"

When running that, I get this output:

ERROR: problem running / h o m e / u b u n t u / . v a u l t p w ([Errno 8] Exec format error)

I've tried using /home/ubuntu/.vaultpw to no avail.

Also according to the docs, I have proper permissions on the file to read.

How can I fix this? It's not reading my vault password file correctly, it looks like it is interpreting each character as another argument

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6012

Answers (1)

ddavison
ddavison

Reputation: 29032

Turns out that Ansible thought .vaultpw was a script because its permissions were 

-rwx------

I created the file with mode 0600

-rw-------

And it worked great.

Upvotes: 11

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